THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
September 6, 1900
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WRONG IMPRESSIONS MADE.
A clerk, bold! eg aa excel! cat
jKwltloa ia a London bank, visited
SMer years &co a performance of a
arcll-lt&ovrn play. In which the boro
Kaakex a fase fort one out of tiie sil
ver sis of Mexico, says aa exchange.
xcdlat aa la tie moral of this rnag
Blfioeat play. Its effect oa the career
at this youthful clerk was disastrous,
for, being fired by aa ambition to
emulate the doings of the "hero.' who
w-eat abroad and secsred a mighty for
(ane, he actually threw up his berth
Ht the back and sailed for the silver
rails. Fortaae was asainst him from
the first. His tur at the mines was
a record of constant toil, accompanied
by constant failure, and eventually he
blew out his brains, tearing a note
la which be declared that the witness
ing of the play la question had been
th csttw of his quitting England, and
that be bitterly regretted the day
when he had tamed bis steps toward
the theater. In another play there Is
a certain foolish woman, who, being
vaabte to lire agreeably with her hus
band, walks oat of his borne and re
turns no more. A young lady residing
la a western London suburb, who had
witnessed this piece, and who fancied
that her own position was akin to that
of the heroine of the said play, de
cided to follow the latter example,
and. snre enough, quitted the marital
roof sereral days later. Her husband
urged ber to return to him. but she
steadfastly refused, and the upshot of
the matter was that she drifted Into
poverty, and, being unable lo support
herself by her own efforts, sought
refuge ia death. The production of a
play of the "Jack Shppard order la
parts many years ago was the cause of
a respectable tradesman's son taking
to a We of crime. Fired by the feats
of the ftage malefactor, be began hos
tilities by pilfering from his father's
till, and he followed up these depre
dations by breaking Into a bank on the
outskirts of Paris. When placed la
the dock he struck a theatrical atti
tude, and made a short speech which
distinctly recalled some of the lines
from the play which had made so
great aa Impression upon him. Doubt
leas his vicious tendencies had beea
latent up to the time when be visited
the theater, bat the play certainly
serred to call them forth and set them
la action.
LIKE HOLMES DEATH PITS.
Pw" a KmgXmm4 Tb liar nidden
The-recent mysterious discovery of a
human ekefctoa la a box hidden in
the wall of a boos la Westminster
calls to mind many lxtaaces of a
aisalJar nature which hare been re
vealed from time to time. Not long
ago a family vacated a house at
"Wandsworth that had been occupied
for ever twenty years without any
change of tecants. The landlord then
set to work to repair the building, and
finding seme of the walls were la a
rather dilapidated condition, resolved
to another wladow In one of the
front rooms before remedying the de
fects. He was considerably astonished
a few days after the wrk had been
comnwoeed to hear that the workmen
bad discovered the remains of three
skeleton in the wall through which
they were catting. A deep cavity had
beea hollowed out, and la this the
groeaotae reScS reposed. At first there
was Toothing very extraordinary In
tb facta, though they savored of a
crime, b3t H was soon found that In
c& ease the stroll had beea battered
la and penetrated as if by a sharp In
atreemenf A medical man called la
to lnepct the bones stated that they
were those of women, so it soon be
eacae apparent that years before some
borrlbie crime had beea perpetrated ia
this very houj. the walla of which hid
their secret until all hope of bringing
the culprit to Jus lice had vanished. The
fxzsflX, too. had lled there for twenty
years without the slightest suspicion
cf the terrible evidence of guilt that
existed within a few yards of where
they had their meals. Until quite late
ly there stood in Ratcliff Highway a
house that has now been merged Into
the adjoining one to form a large pub-
. lie bttUding. tout Its walls still stand. If
homm couM speak none could tell
more horrible tales than this one.
' For many years it was aa opium dea
owned by a Chinamaa who eventually
perfared oa the scaffold. While his
customers were asleep under the per
nicious drug he riCed their pockets .and
if they contained articles of any value
he psrloined them, thea picked up his
saconacioaa victims and threw them
down a dark hole in the cellar. At the
bottom of this hole was a running
stream, so that all traces of his guilt
were carried away, and the unfortunate
opium smokers disappeared from the
'world's ken "forever. At length, how
ever, he was caught red-handed by one
of the sleepers, who had recovered
yremxtarely. "
A fUg laU t Cork.
r A deal has Just been closed whereby
a well-known brewing firm purchases
about 40.000 pound of corks. This
deal represents 0.(00. In two years
the company will deliver to the brew
ery Bpwards of 100,000,000 corks. This
is said to be one of the biggest deals
in corks ever made. These 100.000.000
corks ia balk, weighing 4&0.000 pounds,
would support 210,000 mea oa top of
the water were ' they to be thown
overboard, each with a single life-preserver
oa.
C. r. BrfM't
Oar eitiater to Brazil, Mr. Charles
Pag Bryan, must hereafter believe la
the theory that "there Is a destiny
which shapes our ends." He ardent
ly deired the Chinese mission, and,
indeed, he tad been nominated for
that honor, and the transference was
a keen disappointment to him. Buf
falo Ctmrterciii.
Wapoleon and the Roman Law.
Napoleon I bad an extraordinary
mind. Ue appeared never to forget
anything he cared to remember and
assimilated Information as the stomach
assimilates food; . retaining only the
valuable. An incident will illustrate
this remarbable quality of hl3 mind.
When forming the "Code Napoleon,
he frequently nKtonlslnnl the council
of state by the still with which be Il
lustrated any point In discussion by
quoting whole passages from memory
of the Roman civil law. The council
wondered bow a ram whose life had
been passed In camp came to know so
much about the old Roman laws. Fi
nally one of them asked him how he
acquired his knowledge.
"When I was a lieutenant, Napo
leon replied. I was unjustly placed
tinder arrest. My small prison room
contained no furniture ercept an old
chair anda cupboard. In the latter
was a ponderous volume, which proved
to be a digest of the Roman law. You
can easily Imagine wbat a valuable
prize the book was to me. It was so
bulky and the leaves were so covered
with marginal notes In manuscript that
had I been confined 10) years I need
never have been Idle. When I re
covered my liberty at the end of ten
days, i was saturated with Justinian
and the decisions of the Roman legis
lation. It was then I acquired my
knowledge of the civil law."
Makes Bra-re Men CoTmrdi.
It has been proved that the compara
tively harmless bombarding, so far as
wounds are ec-nct-rued. of a besieged
town Is terribly demoralizing to the
bravest men.
When a shell bursts near a group of
20 men It may kill one and wound two,
while the remaining 17 escape without
a scratch. It will be found, however,
that many of these are never the same
men again. No matter bow Iron nerved
they were before, they are now ir
resolute and timid, and all their facul
ties are weakened. Very often they
are Jeered at by their comrades be
cause of this change. But this Is ut
terly unjust In fact, their brain and
spinal cord, have been Injured by being
violently shaken against the walls of
their bony cavities.
The same thing occurs In railway
collisions. People who were robust
become quite feeble and nervous,
though they may not have received a
scratch.
This curious state in the case of
soldiers Is well recognized by doctors
under the name of the mental injuries
of explosives. The Injuries are really
quite as physical as a shattered leg,
for they consist of a kind of bruising
of the very delicate tissue of the spinal
cord and brain.
Her Timet r Gift.
In common with other women,, Mrs.
Brown delights In & bargain, and when
she observed the advertisement of a
great fire and water sale in one of the
department stores she repaired there
without delay. There were many fine
works of science, travel, history, re
ligion and fiction to be had for a song
each, but her eyes rested on a hand
somely bound copy of "The Life of
General Grant," and she bought it for
her brother. Of course. It would not
be fair to tell what she paid for It.
The next day her brother came over
to thank ber. "It's fine." he said. "1
haven't got very far In It yet. but I i
know It's going to le good. When lit- i
tie Jane gets along a little further in i
her German I'm going to have her !
read me a bit of it every evening. I
make rather slow progress of it my- j
self."
"In German? gasped the giver. i
"Yes," said the brother, "it's written
In German, a mighty handy thing to
have around the house." Since then
Mrs. Brown has never bought a fire or
water book without looking carefully
n the inside of It. Worcester (Mass.)
Gazette.
Paid am He Went.
ratient Then you think It's all up
with me, doctor?
Doctor I'm afraid so.
"Well, we must all die once, and 1
may as well go now as afterward.
You're sure I'm going?
"Yes."
Then let me have your bill.
"My bill! My dear sir. this Is very
tmusuaL You should give your
thoughts to most serious matters."
My motto has always been 'pay as
you go and now that I am going I
want to pay."
So he paid and went.
Both Extreme.
Editor In Chief I understand young
Bluegore, the millionaire's son, has
gone in for Journalism.
City Editor Yes. lie's on my staff.
Editor In Chief And what do you
think of him?
City Editor Well, he's a unique fig
ure In journalism.
Editor In Chief Yon don't say?
City Editor Yes. He's at once the
richest and poorest reporter In the city.
Catholic Standard and Times.
Coffee Adulteration.
An examination of a sample of roast
ed coffee berries seized in Paris show
ed them to be entirely artificial: chem
ical analysis disclosed asb. gura. dex
trin, etc, and the microscope showed
grains of wheat, starch, vegetable
debris and animal balrs. The berries
were beautifully raolded.
Farrletl the Thrust.
A lady had In brr employ an excel
lent girl who had one fault Her face
was always In a smudge. Her mistress
tried, without offending, to tell her to
wash her face and at last resorted to
strategy.
"Do you know. Bridget," she remark
ed in a confidential manner, "it is said
that If you wash the face every day In
hot, soapy water It will make you beau
tiful?" '
"Will nr said Bridget "Sure, It's a
wonder ye nlver' tried it, ma'am!"
Our Dumb Animals.
Six Ninety-six' Main.
.y ; -7 : :
"It's strange," said Miss Nelson a the
central telephone office, "that no one ever
calls up 696." : She rang the belL :
"Testing the wire," responded central
cheerfully. !
"The wire responds," said the voice.
Miss Nelson was quite aware that she
had no right to continue the conversa
tion, but she had held her curiosity in
check for months in . the face of a mys
tery, and she could endure it .no longer.
"Yon do not use your phone much,
she said politely. .--. ;- -
"No, no," responded the voice, some
what sadly. "I'm not acquainted in the
city. I haven't much use for a telephone,
it is true. But it's a great invention. I
enjoy it very much when you call me up
in the morning."
There was something so wistful in the
voice that Miss Nelson made no apology
to herself for the tears that came in her
eyes. -- . . .
It was a monotpnous life that she ledl
It bad not much happiness in it and no
romance.' So it. was not surprising that
she endeavored , to . probe this, her first
mystery. She took the pains one Sunday
afternoon, when she was at leisure to call
at the house of - George Whitman Rum
ford (696) to make an inquiry about -a
fictitious address. The house was new
and of red sandstone, elegant-and plain
and the yard, the walk and the steps
were in a condition of scupulous neat
ness. A young colored man answered the
door. Miss Nelson. -blushing at her de
ceit, made her. inquiry in a loud tone of
voice. As she had hoped and expected,
this brought an elderly gentleman out of
the library. '
"What is it the lady wants to know.
John? Can I be of any assistance, mad
am?" -
Miss Nelson, hating herself for her -duplicity,
repeated the question.
The tall gentleman shook his head re
gretfully. "I really can be of no assistance to
yon," be said. "I know so few persons in
the neighborhood. But. if you will do me
the honor to come in and wait, I will
send out to make inquiries."
"Oh, no, no!" protested Miss Nelson.
"I shall have to give np trying to find
my friends. I think. It is evidently a
mistake. It is sometimes hard to locate
one's friends in a city like this."
"It is. indeed. I suppose. Unfortunate
ly, I have no friends here."
"No?"
"No: I have recently come here. I
have always lived in a little town, but I
thonsht I would like to see what life in
the city was like."
"Yes."
"I have built this house. Wont you
step in a moment and look at it? I take
great pleasure out of it. The postman
kindly stepped in the, other day and look
ed at it. and he admired it much."
Miss Nelson hesitated between pru
dence and amiability, and then, casting
selfish caution to the winds, she went in.
A prim, expensive, exquisitely neat, and
altogether unbomelike interior . met . her
view. - ... ; r
"I had to do It quite alone," explained
Mr. Itumford. "1 dare say a v lady can
discover many- deficiencies in - it, and -1
should be glad of suggestions." L -
r "You must find it pleasant living on
the boulevard,", said Miss Nelson. -
"Oh, very, very! So many people go
by. I would like to ask some of them in
at times, but they might think It strange.
I'm much obliged to you for coming in.
It has made a very agreeable break : in
the day. I'm a little solitary, you know.
If it were not for John, I should be quite
dnll."
Miss Nelson was moved to shake bands
In saying farewell, and the hand that
took hers was unexpectedly hard with
ancient callouses. She could not make
the man out. He was more of a mystery
than ever.
She got in the way. after this, of add
ing some little word over the phone after
the daily test of the wires, and finally
she confessed that it was she who had
called. Mr. George Whitman Rnmford
was greatly pleased at this. He laugh
ed and chatted about it till Miss Nelson
was obliged to ring off. He wanted to
send her n -little gift, but she refused
very gently to receive it. . He asked to
take her to church Sunday evening, but
she felt it to be best to refuse that
courtesy too. He inquired whether he
might not call for her and escort her
home. But she did not accord him that
permission, He took these rebuffs sadly.
One morning there was no response when
she rang the bell, and after many trials
she made out that John was making fu
tile attempts to be heard. It was John
who mumbled over the wires ' for four
successive mornings.
Miss Nelson grew anxious and called
personally at the house. John came to
the door, weeping.
"Mistah Rumfo'd he pass' 'way dls
mohnin. ma'am. He ask me ovah and
ovah las' night did you tes the wiahs
yet. He mighty ton' ob answerin the
phone. Mistah Rumfo'd."
Lida Nelson suffered a pang such as
she had never felt before. It was. re
morse. , . .v f
She went into the room where the un
dertaker and hu assistants were, having
just finished their sorry task, and she
looked with penitence at the white face
of the loneliest man she had ever known.
"I ought to have had less propriety
and more humanity." she said to herself.
It was Miss Nelson. John, two or three
of the neighbors and Mr. Rumford's man
of business who followed the black coffin
to the place of the dead. . -. ; , ::
And the next week Miss Nelson had
all the . mystery solved. The. man . of
business brought her a manuscript. . , It
was written for her by the dead man.
and it contained a simple story of a man
whose money had brought him only . Iso
lation. With the manuscript was a gift.
"When yon receive this," the donor had
written. "I shall be where you cannot re
turn It. to me." .
"My contemptible, selfish propriety!"
lobbed Lid a Nelson. . "My, cowardly, dis
cretion! It's the, biggest chance I ever
had for giving happiness, and I. missed it.
I let it go." Chicago Tribune. .
-Getting? Even.
"One great trouble' wif dishere world,
said Uncle lSben. "is dat ev'ybody 'mag
Ines dat some one is tryin ter git de best
of Mm an dat he's gotter git de bes o'
some one else so's ter keep even.
Washington Star.
"ClRar. Etc.
A cigar lias been defined as a thing
with a light at one end and a fool at the
other, but somehow the fool never feels
so much like a. fool as he does when he
gets himself and the light at the same
end. Detroit Journal. .
Two True Stories.
- The Piscatorial Prevaricators asso
ciation "sraa in . session. -
"I was fishing for cod off the Banks
one day some -. years ago," said one,
'when I dropped my watch overboard.
The next year, I went fishing at the
same place. I caught a whopping big
fellow and found . my watch Inside . of
blm. It was running steadily, the ac
tion of the fish's liver having kept It
wound up.. But it was five hours fast.
The only way .that I. can account for it
is that the fish, crossed the Atlantic,
staid on tho other, side long enough
to get the time over there, and that I
caught him to soon after he got back
to allow the watch; to regulate itself."
; "l. was fishing for trout in Pennsyl
vania last fall," said another member,
"in company with my nephew, who ia
an inveterate cigarette smoker. We
landed a ten pounder and allowed him
to flounder around In the bottom of the
boat while we cast again, because they
were biting freely. My nephew Jiad
Just thrown a lighted cigarette in the
boat, and in some way this trout . got
it, put. It in his gills and smoked it.
The cigarette seemed to have a sooth
ing effect on him. I brought the trout
home, taught him to smoke a pipe, and
when we killed him-Christmas I served
tip to ray guests, something that I be
lieve has never been served np before
-self smoked. tront. It was great too.
New York Journal. .
".Went Little Too Fir.
. A,. commercial, traveling man landed
at Edinburgh, Scotland, one Saturday
night, too late to get outof town for Sun
day. The next day he found that there
was actually nq form of amusement.in
the whole city, to assist him In whiling
away the day. He went to the pro
prietor of the hotel to see if he could
suggest a way pf passing the remain
der of the day,.r; ,
The landlord took pity on the stran
ger and took, him to one of the rooms
in the house In - which a number of
Scotchmen were playing a game called
"nap," which Is a-sort of modification
of "seven up." : They were playing for
a shilling a point, so that the game was
a pretty stiff one. ; The stranger got in
the game-and played very cautiously,
for he was quite sure that the players,
or at least, some of them,- were cheat
ing. One solemn faced Scot, he. was
especially sure; be caught, cheating a
number of times. He began whl sling
a part of some vagrant tune. The Scot
who had been cheating arose from the
table tind threw down the cards.
."What is the-matter?" the other play
ers asked. ; ' ; -
Im gangin;awa, the Scot answer
ed, glaring at the stranger. "111 play
cards wi' no mon that whustles on the
Sabbath." jr;x r v .
v , Malting Carleetnrea. ; .
..The. way;lnJwhich some artists can
distort feature. without. making, them
unrecognizabfe. , fseertalnly very , re
markable. Thojnas. Nast s possessed
this faculty toa extraordinary degree
and he had " rery peculiar way of
adding new . f ces to his mental pho
tograph gallery When a fresh sub
ject would arise ! 'fa poUUcs : for In
stance, he would invent some pretext
to call aipon him at his office or house
and ' hold blmvin conversation as long
as possible,' studying his features.
When he took; bis departure he would
purposely leave his cane. Once outside
Nast would make a hasty pencil sketch
on a card and. would usually find that
his memory was deficient as to some
detail. He would then return,' ostensi
bly for the cane, and another look at
the victim would enable him to per
fect his'sketch.a After that he had the
man forever- - 1
.When Joe Keppler was alive he used
to make frequent trips to Washington
for the purpose of seeing statesmen
whom he wanted: to draw. He wa
very clever at catching likenesses and
scarcely ever referred to a photograph.
A .Fanoai Duel.
A duel was-fought in Texas by Alex
ander Shott and John S. Nott. Nott
was shot and Shott was not. In this
case it Is better to be Shott than Nott.
There was a rumor that Nott was not
shot, but, Shott. avows that he was not,
which proves either that the shot Shott
shot at Nott was not shot or that Nott
was, shot notwithstanding.
I may be made to appear on trial
that the.shot Shott shot shot Nott or, as
accidents with firearms are frequent, it
may be possible' .that the shot Shott
shot shot' Shott himself, when the
whole affair would resolve itself into
its original . element, and Shott would
be shot and Nott would be not. f
We think, however, that the shot
Shott shot-shot,: not Shott, but Nott.
Anyway.- It is , hard to tell who was
shot. - . ,
Mexican Theater Etiquette.
In a Mexican theater women always
go bareheaded and the men wear their
hats all the.time the curtain is closed."
During the performance they remove
them. .
Frequently men rise In their seats;
and sweep .the : tiers of . boxes with
large glasses. It is, considered some-,
thing of . an honor to have, the glasses
of a swell below, leveled at your box.
Smoking is permitted In all theaters.
City of Mexico Correspondence. ,
: Liquid Glue. .
; To ' produce liduld glue which will
keep for years break pieces of glue and
place In a 'bottle' with some whisky,
cork tightly and set aside for a few.
days. , This should be ready for use
without the application of heat, except
In very cold weather, when the bottle
should be placed in hot water for a few
minutes beforeusing. the.glue.
' JMt a Way' ot Hew.
"Yon must not think, young man,"
said the cotfn fed philosopher, "that a.
young ' woman : doesn't know ' anything
Just because she has' a habit of asking
foolish questions ' that give you " a
chance to Impart Information with a
superior air' Indianapolis Press.
On Mountain Heights. .
Everything glittered in the early morn
ing light the distant Alpine peaks, the
sparkling roofs of the chalets, the dews
on the mountain grass.
The air was. clear, the sky blue, the
snow brilliant. . As, one breathed a sense
of freshness, of purity and of life thrilled
through one's whole being and tingled to
the finger tips. , -
On the height of Dent Jaune a gun
iounded, a signal enthusiastically echoed
In the villages below. Dent J aune is
rarely attempted. The. ascent is most
perilous. The fraying, deceitful rock
crumbles under, the climber's . feet and
breaks away from his - bleeding fingers.
It has only been scaled four times within
record. But . Saxon Harvard had now
done it, succeeding in the first effort that
had been made this season. . The eyes of
those who were early astir were centered
upon the stern and jagged summit where
the hero and his two guides now stood,
visible only, however, to those - below
through a powerful glass.
High up -in the heavens the early sun
lit the tips of the bare rock. Not even a
patch of. yellow lichen nor spot of moss
could live on the barren crags, but their
feldspar formation imparted to them a
marvelous brilliance, and their, detritus
and gravel shimmered and glittered as
though they had been sprinkled with the
dust of diamonds. A sense of gayety
and pride, the satisfaction that accom
panies a great success, possessed the
youthful climber. . He looked around at
the infinite wealth of view, at the innu
merable peaks white with eternal snow,
at the thousand summits of Switzerland,
which appeared to arise out of a sea of
cloud, flushing in their awakening and
glorified by the first shafts of morning.
.Since Saxon Harvard left school climb
ing had been his sport. He had scaled
the Jungfrau, the Matter horn, Mont
Blanc and a dozen others of less renown,
but this ascent of the Dent Jaune gave
him a keener pleasure. The feat was a
rarer one, the risk of life was greater,
and, though the peak was not of great
height, its ascent was most difficult.
Then he had luck in the weather. He
had never seen the world before under
the influence of such a glamour.
Below all was yet lost and dim; the
lower world was in mist and drapery of
cloud, but as he looked this planet earth
seemed gradually to become born into
being under his eyes. The clouds melt
ed. Day. moment by moment, stole low
er down the heights. The mountain
peaks, snow clad, appeared to grow up
out of the gloom and mystery of the
nether world. "The cathedral" emerged
in silent majesty out of a disappearing
cloud. Dent Noire loomed like a . gaunt
specter in the dawn. . The Dent du
Midi, crisp and white, stood out in the
blue. Above him, beyond, afar, the mul
titudinous peaks of snow white moun
tains; immediately about him the naked
rocks with their marvelous morning
hues and everywhere the scintillation
and glitter of the feldspar. Every, cloud
now vanished. The visible earth was
green in the valley; the hundred chalets
of the villages, the winding roads, the
somber gorge, the cascades foaming from
the mountain sides and 'falling by many
a cataract into the yet lingering gloom
in the valley, ! . where the main torrent
pursued its turbulent coarse, became con
tinually more and more distinct a vast
landscape spread beneath his vision.
From Bonaveaux a party was ascend
ing to meet him. He discerned them
ascending like a little stream of ants.
Taking his ax, he chipped upon a smooth
surface ot the summit one name Eva.
. Then he descended. '
Some of his relatives then visiting
Switzerland, his father, his sisters, legit
imately proud of his feat, were labori
ously climbing the sigzag mountain path
above Bonaveaux." With them were
porters carrying luncheon baskets and
some people from his hotel people whom
he had never seen before and never de
sired to see again. They had organized
a picnic in his honor. He was to be
lionized. ' '
As modest as he was plucky, nothing
could be more disagreeable to him than
to be feted. He decided to avoid this
party ' who had ( organized a mountain
breakfast in his honor, and, instructing
his two guides to continue their descent,
he struck a path which led him a little
way up again toward the glacier.
Skipping along as nimbly as a chamois,
he traversed "a narrow path until he ap
proached the Caverne Yerte.
From its" depths reverberated a song.
The voice was unmistakable. It was
Eva's. Rounding the crag which formed
one of the sides of the Cavern, he saw her
as she sang. She was alone, as she
thought, in the stillness.
Eva, always beautiful, was yet more
lovely when she sang.. Then her whole
soul was made visible upon her face.
Her eyes put on the splendor of genius,
her complexion became transparent, and
her spirit was made luminous upon her.
She looked like a nymph of the moun
tains in that green and-lofty solitude.
He was awed by this apparition of beau
ty. Should he speak or pass? 1
He listened. The melody ceased, and
he entered the cavern; each to welcome
the other with a juvenile shout of joy.
They talked at once and together in the
glory of the morning, of the altitudes, of
all that was high and noble and exalted,
of the aspirations of life, of its opportuni
ties for duty. ' She, of his heroism, of no
bility," of bravery and of the grandeur of
a courageous life; he, of her beauty, of
the loveliness of art and-of the sweetness
of song, of the unattempted heights in
the domain of thought, of ambitions that
enter only the dreamland of youth. -
Eva fixed upon him her great,' ardent
eyes. He was the hero of all her reveries,
and she said simply, "Everything is pos
sible to a man who has climbed the Dent
Jaune."
"Yes, Eva," he repaated as he took her
hand and held it throbbing in his own
scarred and swollen palm, "everything,
but there is a height higher than any I
have attempted yet, the highest, the ho
liest altitude of all. We will climb that
pinnacle together."
"What do you speak of 7.' asked Eva
softly, struck by the seriousness of his
tone.
"Of love, Eva." he replied. "Of the
highest altitude. The height of all is
love."- Illustrated London News.
Thovarfct Ske Could S It.
Tes," she said after giving the matter
careful deliberation, "I believe I can re
turn his love.
Truly, when it came to a matter of
choice, it seemed easier to return his love
than to return his many . valuable pres
ents. At any rate it was worth trying.
Chicago Post.. .
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.THE FAMOUS PLEIADES.
Why They Are Particularly Interesting
to the AtroiMinrik
The problems presented by the group
of stars known ; as the -Pleiades are
among the most Interesting In astron
omy. It can havs been no mere chance
that has massed them from among
their fellow-stars. Men of ordinary
eye-sight sea but a half dozen distinct
objects in the clustery those of acuter
vision can count fourteen," but it Is
not until we apply the spacepenetrat
Ipg power of the telescope " that we
realize the extraordinary scale, upon
which the system : of the Pleiades la
constructed. . With the, Paris instru
ment "Wolf In 1876 catalogued 625 stars
in the group; and the photographic
survey pf . Henry " in 1887 .revealed no
less than ,2,326 distinct. , stars . within
and near' the filmy gaijze of nebulous
matter always so.,' conspicuous a fea
ture' of the Pleiades. The Pleiad stars
are among those, for which no meas
urement of distance has yet been made,
so that we do not know whether they
are all equally far away from us. -We
see them projected on the dark back
ground of the celestial vault;, and can
not tell from actual ' measurement
whether they . are air situated; at the
same , point in space, but we may con
clude .on general principles that the
gathering of so many objects into a
single close assemblage denotes com
munity of origin and interests. The
Pleiades then really belong 4o one an
other. What l- is " the nature tf their
mutual tie? What Is ! their mystery,
and-can we solve It? The most ob
vious theory is, of course, suggested by
what we know to be true within our
own solar system. We owe 4 to New
ton -the beautiful conception of gravi
tation, that unique law by - means of
which astronomers have been enabled
to reduce to perfect order the seeming
tangle of planetary evolutions. The
law really amounts. In effect, to this:
All objects suspended within the va
cancy of space attract or pull one an
other; How they can do this without a
visible' connecting link between them,
is a: mystery that may always remain
unsolved. But mystery as .it Is, we
must accept it as ascertained fact. It
is this pull of gravitation that holds
together the sun and the planets, forc
ing them aU to follow out their proper
paths. Why should not this same
gravitational attraction be at work
among the Pleiades? If It is, we must
suppose that they, too, have bounds
and . orbits, set and interwoven, revo
lutions and gyrations far more com
plex than the, solar system knows. The
visual discovery of such motion of ro
tation among the Pleiades. , may be
called one'of the pressing problems "of
astronomy today. We feel sure that
the time is ripe, and that the discov
ery Is actually being made at the pres
ent moment; for a generation of mea
is not too great period to call a I mo
ment, when we have to deal with cos
mic time. New York Post
' ETansrille Honey Industry.
The honey producing Industry of
Evansville, Ind., has reached such
magnitude that the city council is
considering " an ordinance declaring
the Ghees' a nuisance, and requiring the
owners of hives to move them outside
the city limits. It Is said that seventy
five persons have colonies of bees in
the city, and the beesproduce $10,000
worth of honey a year. Persons who
want the bees taken out ask that It be
done by September 1. The bee own
ers have engaged a lawyer, jwhp has
represented. : to tha cltyr. council: that
there is not a city" in the state that
forbids people to have beehives."
Call during .
Fair Week
and
Get
acquainted.....
1 Tours In the Rocky Mountains.
. The "Scenic Line of tho World," the
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, offers to
tourists in Colorado, .Utah and New
Mexico the choicest resorts, and to the
transcontinental traveler the grandest
scenery. . Two separate and distinct
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Fire Sale of; Shoes
Our entire' stock of shoes -was dam
aged by fire, "smoke and water Satur
day, August 18, and now we are clos
ing out the entire stock, $20,000 worth
of shoes at great bargains. It will pay
you to come and get your shoes for fall
and winter wear. Everything at one
half regular price. . , , . , ,
Fire Shoe Sale of the Western Shoe
Co., 1126 O St., Lincoln, Neb.
. Uncle John Walker of Humnhrev
Neb., returning from Kansas City was
the guest of Mr. Jewell in Lincoln this
week. He brought with him a large
club of subscriptions for The Inde
pendent
Lancaster county people can nowhere
get so much reading for thetmonev as
in The Independent w:tn the Lancaster
County Supplement From now until
November 10 for 15 cents.
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